Darkness and Light, Sorrow and Joy
by Ranma Inverse
-Alternate Universe-
Fushigi Yuugi
Chapter One










Author's notes: Thanks for the reviews! I'm very happy you want me to continue this story! Uhm, Miaka's a little more mature in this one considering her parents were killed when she was young and such...

Note 2 ^_^: I have a really odd idea about vampire society well, two actually, but I have one that could be used here...so I'm gonna try it out. o_O;; Uhm. . .WARNING!!! Yui lovers...don't fear! I won't say why, but don't. (Warning isn't for this chapter.)

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"Free the Dream Within, The Stars are Crying, A Tear...A Sigh, Escapes from Heaven, ...And Worlds End" - The Dream Within, Lara Fabian. (Thanks Nuriko-san, for correcting me! ^^;;)
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A young teenage human about the age of seventeen walked through the streets of yet another human village that had turned into a ghost town. Some of the human's souls hadn't left yet, and she could still here some of the screams. As one rang out, she stopped walking and closed her deep hazel eyes. When it ended she began to walk again. The human female pulled some of her dark brown hair behind her ear. She wore a dark brown shirt under a green tunic that fell past her hips and black pants. On her back she carried a medium-sized bag that seemed to have little in it. She stopped and turned when she heard someone call her name.

"Miaka!" A young girl about the same age as she with short, blonde hair and frightened blue eyes brimming with tears ran to embrace her. "They killed everyone! They would have gotten me too, but I wasn't in the village at the time...they killed my sister, but I couldn't find my brother! They must have taken him to make him a vampire too!"

Miaka's eyes widened and she hugged her dear friend Yui. "I'm sorry for them...I'm glad that they didn't get you, though. For a moment...I had given up hope of finding you."

Yui cried into her friend's shoulder. "I took all the remaining, unspoiled food I could find and took three weapons...can I travel with you? It's been a long time since you visited the village...and I don't want to be here anymore."

The burnette nodded and Yui wore a grim smile. "If only vampires didn't exist. . ." That way, they wouldn't have caused you to run away from the town where your parents were killed. That way, you'd still be the sweet, innocent Miaka, instead of being filled with anger for Vampires, she thought silently.

The blonde looked up at the sun before looking to her friend once again. "They'll be coming back soon to see if there were any survivors... we should go now."

Turning her head, Miaka smiled and took Yui's hand. "Yeah. . .let's go."

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Thunder boomed in a place far, far from the two girls. A crack of lightning and the sound of talking echoed through the halls of a long-inhabited castle filled with the much afeared race of vampires and the human servants they had stolen to command.

On a throne, sat a small demon, looking like a babe with no hair and a red jewel adorned on his forehead. He opened his eyes slowly as a human female dressed in an elegant dress that expressed her curves held a golden goblet to his lips. His gaze went slowly from the woman to the goblet and sipped. When she removed the goblet, a small ammount of blood glittered on the demon's lips.

"Lord Miboshi....we found this...human..." A vampire dressed in armor spat the word out distastefully. He held up a beaten, bruised and bloody body up with one hand. "Outside demanding to see the ones who destroyed the town of Ethlem."

Miboshi curved his mouth into a twisted smile. "Such a low life? A human?" He paused, then lifted one of his doll-like hands. "But even so, this may be amusing. . .be here any being who was involved in the destruction of Ethlem?"

A single vampire took a step towards the vampire holding the beaten human. His eyes were a putrid green, his skin bearing an ugly greenish tint and very disgustingly oily and dirty brown hair. He looked like a cross between a vampire and a ghoul. The vampire smiled sadistically. "I helped in it's destruction."

The beaten male human was thrown to the floor at the disgusting vampire's feet. He stood up immediately, showing his full height, his flame-like hair messy from fighting and travelling, his golden-amber eyes glaring at the vampire. Wearing the clothes like that of a bandit and his vampire-like fangs, the brawl he had lost with the armored vampire, bearing his cuts and bruises, had only caused the threatening and dangerous atmosphere about him increase.

"You killed Iris!" He accused with a fury. The firey man spit at the disgusting vampire, who frowned and wiped it off his cheek.

"I killed many. Did you lose your woman to me?" The vampire spoke with a tint of rage flashing in his putrid eyes. "Want to join your woman? I'll gladly oblige-"

He was cut off by a roar of rage, and the bandit took a fan that was oddly made of metal from it's hiding place. "Rekka Shinen!" He cried, and the flames that spouted out of the fan surrounded the vampire, who screamed with his last breath he would ever breathe.

Silence rang throughout the room for a long time, all stood frozen until finally, the sound of flaint clapping and foot steps came. Heads turned as the well-known and equally well feared Nakago entered the wide area people had stepped back from, stopping when he was close to the firey bandit.

"Very well done. You're a talented one." Nakago's cold, ice blue eyes surveyed him through blonde hair. Though he wore armor, he was dressed better than Lord Miboshi. The bandit tensed and clutched his tessen tighter.

Someone shouted out from the crowd. "Why compliment the disgusting thing? Just kill it!"

Nakago pointed a finger in the direction of the voice, and without even looking or blinking, he sent a large blast of lightning there. It killed the speaker instantly, along with any standing in front of him. The remaining crowds simply stepped slightly away and continued watching the most dangerous vampire alive.

"Fools. Humans may be lesser, and humans may be foul, but they are our life source. Do you not all realize that? Or do you just defy it? If all the humans in the world died there would not be anything left for us to live from. True, they are worthless...but they can be manipulated for our own uses at times." Nakago spoke, then turned to the bandit. "You are given a chance to leave or die. Pick your choice." Without giving the firey haired man a chance to speak, two armored vampires grabbed him and began to drag him out, kicking and shouting obscenities. Nakago faced Miboshi and raised a brow.

"Seeing that you have defied my orders of killing off the vampires that prove to be useless, I denounce your right to sit on that chair and be idle in uselessness."

Lord Miboshi spat out the blood he was in the middle of drinking. "What?! H-how dare you speak to me like that! I am Lord of the Undead!"

Nakago raised a fisted hand and unclenched it, fist facing Miboshi. "I do not like to repeat myself. Step down from your chair. You may prove your worth by serving under the hand of Tomo."

Miboshi kept in his rage. Tomo? The one who had an unnatural...attraction...to Nakago? Miboshi kept his face straight and stepped out of the room, his chin raised in an effort to maintain the last of his dignity.

The blonde vampire sat down where Miboshi had been only a moment before and motioned the slave woman to refill the cup before speaking to the inhabitants of the room.

"I have heard that our Dhampir has run off once again. I tire of this game he shall never win. A first choice out of all the new slaves that have been gathered shall be the prize to the one who catches him and brings him back. Alive." He added the last word after a moment of consideration.

Several of the room's members left immediately. A manevolent smile formed on Nakago's lips as he sipped from the cup the trembling woman had given him.